Hard drive spinning. Trigger words.

 

So I'm transcribing my crappy journal entries from ancient manuscripts, typing them up without editing for content. I am not going to try to rewrite history. I used a word that rhymes with "trigger" and is a well known racist term, which cannot be erased from existence just because collectively we are going through a bipolar swing toward the uber-sensitive side of things. "Motherfucker" is a pretty bad word, but it won't land you in hot water like this one.

Not ten seconds after I hit the publish button, my hard drive went into overload again. It had cooled off for a week or two after my previous use of banned trigger words on Facebook Messenger. They completed their scans, deemed me to be an uninteresting person of interest of no threat to national security at this time. But OMG, there he goes again! Using hate speech! Oooh. And it's got racist overtones! Let's keep scanning, maybe we'll find some kiddie porn or a manifesto somewhere.

Good luck. Maybe if they get frustrated enough they'll put whatever they are looking for on my computer and then "find" it. What? Paranoid? Delusional? Me? May-be...